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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. Music that is easy to listen to and understand.
Root
Accessible
Courante
Triple time
2. Pertaining to the loudness or softness of a musical composition. Also the symbols in sheet music indicating volume.
Dynamics
Deceptive cadence
Introduction
Contralto
3. A hymn sung by the choir and congregation often in unison.
Chorale
Song cycle
Exposition
Octet
4. A composition written for nine instruments.
Relative major and minor
Grazioso
Nonet
Sequence
5. The period of music history which dates from the mid 1700's to mid 1800's. The music was spare and emotionally reserved - especially when compared to Romantic and Boroque music.
Classical
Cavatina
Fourth
Major
6. Introduction to an opera or other large musical work.
Key
Overture
Root
Verismo
7. One who directs a group of performers. The conductor indicates the tempo - phrasing - dynamics - and style by gestures and facial expressions.
Conductor
Forte
Relative major and minor
Partita
8. The movement of chords in succession.
Progression
System
Cadenza
Motif
9. Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending.
Scherzo
Leading note
Scale
Interval
10. The highest female voice.
Clef
Madrigal
Allegro
Soprano
11. A dirge - hymn - or musical service for the repose of the dead.
Progression
Key signature
Requiem
Time Signature
12. A short light musical drama.
Nocturne
Waltz
Operetta
Accelerando
13. Tones used to embellish the principal melodic tone.
Ornaments
Accessible
Presto
Etude
14. The distance in pitch between two notes.
Tone less
Interval
Rhythm
Concert master
15. Lowest female singing voice.
Interlude
Key signature
Contralto
Encore
16. Singing in unison - texts in a free rhythm. Similar to the rhythm of speech.
Chant
Serenade
Pentatonic Scale
Sextet
17. Pleasing combination of two or three tones played together in the background while a melody is being played. Harmony also refers to the study of chord progressions.
Harmony
Accessible
Tablature
Whole-tone scale
18. A direction to play expressively.
Progression
Mezzo
Fermata
Espressivo
19. Music that is written and performed without regard to any specific key.
Serenade
EnharmonicInterval
Atonal
Impromptu
20. Repetition of a single tone.
Instrumentation
Triple time
Maestro
Monotone
21. Combining a number of individual but harmonizing melodies. Also known as counterpoint.
Virtuoso
Polyphony
String Quartet
Mezzo
22. A quick 20th century dance written in double time.
Hymn
Quadrille
Rigaudon
Relative major and minor
23. A group of 4 instruments - two violins - a viola - and cello.
Development
Sonata form
Symphony
String Quartet
24. The interval between two notes. Three whole tones and one semitone make up the distance between the two notes.
Fifth
Serenade
Stretto
Energico
25. An extended cantata on a sacred subject.
Intonation
Relative major and minor
Suite
Oratorio
26. One of the two modes of the tonal system. The minor mode can be identified by the dark - melancholic mood.
Castrato
Tonal
Minor
Slide
27. A symbol used in musical notation indicating to gradually quicken tempo.
Refrain
Accelerando
Legato
Baroque
28. A solo concert with or without accompaniment.
Tonal
Soprano
Vivace
Recital
29. The raising and lowering a pitch of an instrument to produce the correct tone of a note.
Key
Renaissance
Tuning
Accessible
30. A symbol indicating to play loud.
Nocturne
Forte
Sonatina
Tremolo
31. A portion of the range of the instrument or voice.
Flat
Grave
Tone less
Register
32. A combination of two or more staves on which all the notes are vertically aligned and performed simultaneously in differing registers and instruments.
Hymn
Temperament
Register
System
33. A piece of music played at the end of a recital responding to the audiences enthusiastic reaction to the performance - shown by continuous applause.
Prelude
Round
Encore
Tone less
34. A combination of two or more staves on which all the notes are vertically aligned and performed simultaneously in differing registers and instruments.
Tessitura
Leitmotif
Rondo
System
35. In sheet music - a symbol at the beginning of the staff defining the pitch of the notes found in that particular staff.
Clef
Clavier
Tonality
Allegro
36. A composition written for a solo instrument. The soloist plays the melody while the orchestra plays the accompaniment.
Tempo
A cappella
Concerto
Rigaudon
37. Pleasing combination of two or three tones played together in the background while a melody is being played. Harmony also refers to the study of chord progressions.
Drone
Fugue
Phrase
Harmony
38. Convenient method of numbering a composer's works where a number follows the word 'opus'.For example - Opus 28 - No. 4.
Galliard
Opus
Key
Leitmotif
39. Two or more voices or instruments playing the same note simultaneously.
Expressionism
Orchestra
Impromptu
Unison
40. Piece of instrumental music played between scenes in a play or opera.
Interlude
Phrase
System
Rhythm
41. The frequency of a note determining how high or low it sounds.
Pitch
Tone less
Musicology
Grazioso
42. Short movement or interlude connecting the main parts of the composition.
Intermezzo
Homophony
Cantata
Tonic
43. A musical theme given to a particular idea or main character of an opera.
Soprano
Leitmotif
Overture
Ostinato
44. When several strings are tuned to harmonically related pitches - all strings vibrate when only one of the strings is struck.
Expressionism
Resonance
Sharp
Orchestra
45. A form of writing for vocals that is close to the manner of speech and is rhythmically free.
Rococo
Libretto
Leitmotif
Recitative
46. Originally an improvised cadence by a soloist. Later it became a written out passage to display performance skills of an instrumentalist or performer.
Cadenza
Scherzo
Canon
Beat
47. One of the two modes of the tonal system. Music written in major keys have a positive affirming character.
Voice
Major
Key
Triplet
48. The flats and sharps at the beginning of each staff line indicating the key of music the piece is to be played.
Grazioso
Libretto
Time Signature
Key signature
49. Curved line connecting notes to be sung or played as a phrase.
Finale
Ligature
Consonance
Twelve-tone music
50. One or more vocalists performing without an accompaniment.
A cappella
Accelerando
Recapitulation
Chromatic scale